The Toasty Smell of Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Mel Torme with an iron fist, and notable for its anti-smoking policies, prohibition of alcohol, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 6.284 billion Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hearth. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 40.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire economy, worth 538 trillion Toasty Smells a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Pizza Delivery. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is 85,628 Toasty Smells, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 311,899 per year while the poor average 16,709, a ratio of 18.7 to 1.

Stockbrokers dream of getting rich by writing textbooks, Mel Torme's latest speech included a bizarre reference to MaxWow incontinence pads being 50% more absorbent than the next leading brand, defense lawyers often argue there's no proof murder victims weren't vampires, and octogenarian swimsuit models insist that they've still got it. Crime is moderate. Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire's national animal is the Open Fire, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire is ranked 100,452^nd in the world and 48^th in Christmas for Most Valuable International Artwork, with 0.17 Bank.